The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Don't miss, over on the other blog  the most prestigious music awards on my street . Favourite Album of 2012 Favourite New Version ...

Next time someone asks you what the BBC is for, listen to Kirsty's reaction to Martin Carthy's story about Scarborough Fair, and the...

Can a place of work or a school have a dress code? Yes. Ought a place of work or school to have a dress code? Dunno. Depends on h...

C.S Lewis's "trilemma" was never intended to be a proof of the existence of God. Again. The radio broadcasts were never ...

I may at some stage try and write a review of the Hobbit But on the other hand, I may just sit in the corner and weep softly to myself...

(Responding to comments on previous thread. I will get back to writing about funnybooks soon, I promise.)  Before writing anything about re...

I think that "Jacob" makes a very valid point I think his very valid point is this: The whole idea that the relationship betw...

Using analogies sometimes helps me to think straight. I think they may sometimes help other people think straight as well.  Jesus once s...

I don't think that "having false beliefs about" and "hating" are necessarily the same thing. Er. that's it, ...

Some Suitable Songs For The Season

(warning: stayed up very late last night listening to folk music, got on coach very early this morning to travel oop north to visit friends,...

Appendix Well, it's obviously a mess, but. There is a famous story about a Catholic and a Jew who wanted to get married. The...

Unapologetic  by Francis Spufford I am old enough and uncool to have sung "I serve a risen Saviour" without any sense of iron...

Gotterdammerung Covent Garden In one respect, the Ring is a lot like Star Wars. Wagner wrote a single opera called Siegfried. He r...